Baysdorfer Family

RG4558.AM: Baysdorfer Family

Papers:
Omaha, Douglas County, Neb.: Inventors
Size: 1 folder

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of one folder containing biographical information, as well as copies of newspaper clippings and photos. The materials relate to Charles and Gus Baysdorfer of Omaha, Nebraska. The brothers were inventors and builders of an early automobile, an airplane, a motorcycle, and a dirigible. The materials document their lives and activities from the 1890s-1940s.

Note: For additional information see the NSHS Library for Robert Adwers' Rudder, stick and throttle : research and reminiscences on flying in Nebraska [629.13 A244r]. See also Nebraska History, 1982, vol. 63, p. 154.